Starbucks Must Give Anti-Union Spending Info to DOL, Judge Rules

Starbucks Corp. has two weeks to turn over documents sought by a US Labor Department agency in connection with an investigation into the company’s anti-union spending, a federal judge in Seattle ruled.

The Labor Department sued Starbucks in May to enforce an administrative subpoena issued as part of the Office of Labor-Management Standards’ investigation of the company’s outlays in response to worker organizing in Buffalo, N.Y. The first of more than 360 of the coffee chain’s locations voted to form a union there in late 2021.

“We will not sit idly by when any company, including Starbucks Corp., defies our ...